Strasbourg, 28/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 25 January in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe returned to the Yukos affair, and found that the Russian Federation is still a Member State in which the law and legal proceedings may be used to serve those in power, despite Russia's undertakings when it joined the Council of Europe.
The proceedings against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and two other former Yukos bosses went beyond the simple pursuit of justice. Their aim was...